Background: Unplanned urbanization plays a key role in chronic disease growth. This population-based cross-sectional study assessed the occurrence of cardiometabolic risk factors in Bobo-Dioulasso and their association with urbanization conditions. Methods: Through spatial sampling, four Bobo-Dioulasso sub-spaces were selected for a population survey to measure the adult health status. Yéguéré,...

In China, as in many other countries undergoing rapid economic growth, increasing socio-economic inequalities and environmental damage are the main threats to sustainable urbanization. Drawing on international experiences, this paper describes the key issues in urban change in China and identifies the types of policy approaches that could support more sustainable urbanization. Urbanization and ...

This paper introduces the basic connotation of urbanization and its relationship with economic growth. By analyzing the urbanization conditions in China western area, this paper summarizes the pushing effects of urbanization on investment in western area. Besides, this paper points out the specific ways for western area applying the new harmonious urbanization development strategy, offering a t...

Today, most of the world's population lives in urban spaces.For first time history earth 2007, number city dwellers exceeded rural population.The development human civilization 21st century has passed point where cities built with asphalt and concrete attract more people than small settlements on banks rivers, lakes or oceans.The era activities seems to be over prefer a new social environment s...

[1] This paper presents estimates for global N and P emissions from sewage for the period 1970–2050 for the four Millennium Ecosystem Assessment scenarios. Using country-specific projections for population and economic growth, urbanization, development of sewage systems, and wastewater treatment installations, a rapid increase in global sewage emissions is predicted, from 6.4 Tg of N and 1.3 Tg...

Much advance has been made in the study of the new urbanization process in post reform China. But the resulting urban system in Guangdong province has not been thoroughly analyzed creating a knowledge gap between the new urbanization process and the new urban system. This paper attempts to reveal the emerging urban system hierarchy in the 1990s in Guangdong province under socialist market econo...

Using overlapping generation model, we find that population ageing does restrain housing demand. Then, we use the panel data of China’s 31 provinces between 2002 and 2013 to confirm that ageing restrains housing demand, the process of urbanization does the opposite and maybe offsets the negative effect to some extent. At present, China should continue to focus on developing urbanization rapidly...

Hao Zhang, Chao Wang & Xiumin Zhang College of Information and Communication Engineering Harbin Engineering University Harbin 150001, China E-mail: [email protected] Abstract In this article, we develop a prediction model of China population growth, and notice that the modified index curve is a sort of curve that possesses the growth limit K in the statistics, which is the same with the problem...

The paper studies trends in the urbanization in Russia, discusses advantages and disadvantages of the urbanization to the economic development and provides empirical analysis of the relationship between the economic growth and the urbanization in Russian regions. The results show that Russian economy has not exhausted the resources of the urbanization; however the effect of large cities is not ...